Web-based intranets aid document management; 'net technology bolsters firms' electronic library capabilities with ease of use and little cost

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Private intranets using Internet technology enhance firms' electronic library capabilities and offer a host of other advantages at competitive cost levels. Using hyper-text markup language (HTML) and other languages and software developed for the Internet and the World Wide Web, law firms can give their electronic document management systems a hypertext front- end, or even make the intranet into the effective desktop system for attorneys. Intranets can also contain links to the Internet.

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Quietly, intranets boom; in-house incarnations of the Internet are teeming in major corporations, without fanfare

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Intranets, or internal variations on the Internet, are proliferating at every large US company, offering many potential benefits to internal legal departments. Though they initially grew in obscurity, intranets are now popular because they facilitate dispersing information throughout an organization and collecting information from members. Their relatively inexpensive technology permits interaction among lawyers and with those they advise, as well as law-library and file-room functions.

Legal information systems, Legal information services

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Law librarians become tech sleuths, panelists from all strata agree: keeping up with changes means being even more resourceful

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An excerpt from a Law Journal EXTRA! Web site panel discussion of law librarians from the private sector, corporations, school and the government covers topics including whether books are obsolete, which of the new technologies is the most useful, the pros and cons of citation reform, and whether there a function for librarians as content providers is emerging. The full discussion can be read at http://library.ljx.com

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Panel Discussion, Mayper, Robin, Browne, Kelly, Koslov, Marcia, Ruzicka, Aimee, Mackler, Mark, Giangrande, Mark, Saint-Onge, Michael

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